Is the variable  declared a Public variable or just in a procedure?

I'm pretty new at this, so I may have done
it wrong, but I made it a public variable  in the first form. "Public
x as integer."

What I would do, is Hide the first user form  until I had gotten my values
out of it.

For instance, behind the click button of the first form:

Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Me.Hide
UserForm2.Show
End Sub

Then in the second UserForm,

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
UserForm2.TextBox1.Value = UserForm1.TextBox1.Value
Unload UserForm1
End Sub